EClark1894 posted at 4:55AM Thu, 21 May 2020 - #4389374

Jura posted at 10:50AM Thu, 14 May 2020 · 4389085 Get SSD, doesn't matter which one but get one 512GB should be enough for your needs, 1TB doesn't cost too much

I get that Solid State Drives are faster, but are they better? I seem t remember that they fail a lot, although, I might be misremembering that.

In their infancy SSD's had issues, life span could be severely impacted by drive size and random corruption/lost data wasn't unheard of. SSD's have improved so much that I don't know a single person in the past 5 years who has had an SSD from a well known manufacturer fail on them. I've got three SSD's in my current system, one was a replacement for a smaller C drive and it was already a very old (in tech years) Samsung EVO 840 that I passed down to another computer that's been using it for several years without any issues. I'm pretty sure that they've become so robust that other hardware will fail way before any of these drives do. That said, I still have a backup and another backup just in case. You never know! D: